You have some very good points and maybe you should go on your YouTube channel (which I spent hours on watching free stuff) and you should debate robert kiyosaki he has become so negative about everything and Ray Dalio scares the heck out of me.Can you or anyone here who has been through a few decades of economic cycles tell us about the common denominator of all these downturns and what is different now.I appreciate everyone’s contribution but some have less than a decade in the real estate business and that is very little experience to maneuver through big economic declines and dish out advice to others on forums like BiggerPockets! 

Can you show up somewhere and wash dishes while getting to know the locals?

They also provide towels, sheets, soap, shampoo, sponges and dish soap.

The Broker can either deal directly or disperse his lead flow to satellite sales people aka real estate agents.  

Landlord via LandlordLandlord cheater, I  unknown from now i see , rent was 1,000 dollars renter it house not good condition I should check even whole house check up before paid the rent , but Landlord not give the list even room to room , bathroom, wash and dry has wrong wall pause and no dish-wash, house so small size , we know suppose be good for living comfortable, whole house still not condition found and foundation balance .

A purely cash flow place in a lower end market that doesn't appreciate could be losing money even at positive cash flow.I would part ways with you on the 1M mark but only in that its the satellite towns of such cities that can have winners.

Lou Malanatis for deep dish in Park Ridge for pizza.  

My niece lives in one of my units, she washes dishes with water continuously running, at least she did until she got her first $150 water bill which is a 1/3 of her total rent. 

@Bruce Woodruff had a dog house, I had a cat house...27 cats, the owner walked away to another house up the street, leaving dishes on the kitchen table and all furniture.

Or how about all those supposedly-cleaned dishes in the cabinets that a thousand people have used?